U.S. Chess

Chess star Jennifer Shahade says St. Louis-based U.S. Chess retaliated after she became a whistleblower.

In an exclusive in the Wall Street Journal, reporters Andrew Beaton and Joshua Robinson report one of the game's top competition providers will no longer work with the St. Louis Chess Club over allegations the club overlooked accusations of sexual misconduct against a top grandmaster.

Admit it: When you think of chess, an image immediately forms in your mind of two older men, possibly bearded, hunched over a board in a dimly-lit…